Lake Trip

Brent brought Pauline and her sister, Beth, to the farm early this morning. They were eager to get to the lake, but it looked like rain on the radar. After they drove from Smith's Grove to Burkesville, they weren't sure if we could go or if it was going to rain or not. I said we were going to get wet anyway, so at 9:30 we packed up, lunch stuff, towels, coolers and everything else we needed for a day on the lake. I had to stop in Burkesville to fill the boat with gas, and I told Linda it would be raining by the time we got to the lake. Sure enough, it was just starting as we launched the boat. They had put the top up while we were parking the truck and trailer. We headed out anyway as the rain was getting a little harder. I found us a cove to pull in, and we stopped the boat and went swimming, there wasn't any lightning, so not much danger. After the ride in the rain, the lake water felt like bath water when I dove in. The girls said it was warm too. We played around there for about an hour as it drizzled a little and would stop, then drizzle a little more, never a real hard rain though. Finally, I saw a sunny spot appear, and I told the girls to get in the boat while the sun was out. That way they wouldn't be cold when getting out of the water. We ate some sandwiches and then went for a ride. We headed southeast toward Sunset dock and never had any more rain the rest of the day. In fact it got hot and was a beautiful day. We stopped 2 more times and swam and Brent went water sking. About 3:30 we boated in to Sunset and parked along the dock in front of the restuarant. We were seated in the restuarant and ordered, then stepped over to the store to shop for shirts or other junk while our order was prepared. Everyone seemed to enjoy the food and afterwards we took a long slow ride back toward the State Park. I stopped once more to see if anyone wanted to swim before taking the boat off the lake. Stacey and I were the only ones in the water, so we just made a short lap and got back in the boat. We pulled the boat on the trailer and drove off the dock at 5:45.
When we got back to the house, there had been NO RAIN here!